- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
One of Bourgois’s central concerns in the introduction is justifying the qualitative, intensive research method (ethnography) he used to study the lives of East Harlem residents. Many researchers, policymakers, and commentators might ask why qualitative research is necessary on this subject, since there are already numerous quantitative surveys and statistical analyses that supposedly explain what makes East Harlem a poor neighborhood. But Bourgois completely rejects the notion that quantitative data can give an accurate picture of life in El Barrio, precisely because the kind of things that define life in El Barrio inherently resist to measurement. People avoiding the police…